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Malcolm, the document you referenced says:
"the character 0219 ș should be used instead for Romanian"
The standard mentions characters. The locl feature does not change the character, it only changes the glyph. Changing the glyph does not make it right. This substitution does not enforce the standard.
There is a big problem with regard to the correct character usage in Romanian texts. This glyph substitution only makes things worse by making it impossible to distinguish between the correct and incorrect characters. On the hand, I've never seen users complain about glyph display, as long as it's consistent: both cedilla characters use cedilla glyphs and both comma characters use comma glyphs.
Furthermore, the substitution breaks the rendering of Turkish words which appear in Romanian texts.
As for other operating systems, please read Cristian Secară's opinion. He has helped greatly with correct Romanian usage on Windows and is being referenced on the issue of diacritics by Microsoft [1]. Please see the original bug #615565, particularly comment 16 [2].
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